From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:33:54 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097789714 29822 80.91.229.6 (14 Oct 2004 21:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 14 23:35:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIDFb-0001nR-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIDMi-0002sZ-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIDMQ-0002q3-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIDMP-0002pe-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIDMP-0002pE-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.79.80.39] (helo=albion.dl.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CIDES-000311-3e; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIDEQ-0001lg-00; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:33:54 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28395 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28395 Richard Stallman writes: > It puzzles me that most of the definitions in paths.el are defconst's. > It seems that they should all be defcustom. Probably. I think there are several other problems: * I don't know why paths.el defines file names rather than command names; * I think news-path, news-inews-program and the gnus-... variables should be moved to Gnus files; * Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is dumped. There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's rather random on systems I'm familiar with.